PLOVER. 



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cuous in the fide feathers : legs furnifhed with an imperfect 

 back toe. 



This frequents the fields about the Volga, Jaick, and Samara, 

 in flocks, and is pretty plentiful ; but not feen farther north than 

 54 degrees. Is called by fome the Hen of the Steppes *. 



Place. 



Charadrius Afiaticus, Pall. Trav. ii. p. 715. 



A LITTLE bigger than the Ringed Plover. Bill as in that 

 bird : crown of the head, the back, and wings, greyifh afh- 

 coloured brown : forehead, eye-brows, fides of the head, and 

 chin, white: from thence to the middle of the neck ferruginous, 

 bounded by a tranfverfe band of brown : the reft of the under 

 parts white : tail brown, the feathers whitifh on the edges, and 

 tipped with black : legs red. 



Inhabits the fait lakes of the fouthern defarts of Tartary ; and 

 is a rare and folitary bird. 



12. 



ASIATIC PL. 



Descript ion. 



Place. 



Charadrius Mongolus, Pall. Tr. iii. p. 700. 29. 



CIZE of the Dotterel. Forehead white; crown black : from 

 the bill arifes a ftreak of black, which grows wider, and en- 

 circles the throat, which is white; beyond this the fore part of 

 the neck is ferruginous : breaft the fame, but paler : belly white : 

 back cinereous brown. 



Inhabits the fait lakes on the confines of the Mongolian coun- 

 try, in tolerable plenty. Is a folitary fpecies. 



• Ri'.jfia, vol. iv. p. 282 — Dec. Ruff. ii. p. 17. 



'3. 



MONGOLIAN' 



PL. 



Description. 



Charadrius 



